However if this were to break down, the path of oil price is more important to Russia than the level of the US dollar.
With the Copenhagen climate talks in the news, oil executives are watching the unsteady path of carbon dioxide regulation.
With Hurricane Sandy leaving behind a path of destruction, oil refineries in the East Coast are still shut down.
While no one can accurately predict how protracted the conflict in Libya will play out, how powerful will other uprisings be, and at what point and in what way this will spread, investors can be sure that the price of oil will be on a volatile path in the months to come.
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After Cuba, Gustav's projected path takes it over the oil-producing Gulf, before making landfall in the US, possibly as early as Monday.
The cell's first chief, Jacques Foccart, who earned a nickname as "Mr. Africa, " used French soldiers on the continent to install leaders he deemed friendly to French interests, given French companies a path toward winning deals for oil and other natural resources.
And if you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports in half by 2020.
And if you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports by half in 2020 and support more than 600, 000 new jobs in natural gas alone.
Over the past four years we have doubled the use of renewable energy, dramatically reduced our dependence on foreign oil, and put our country on a path to win the global race for clean energy jobs.
If you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and we could support more than 600, 000 jobs in natural gas alone. (Applause.) But you can also choose the alternative, which is to let the oil companies write our energy plans.
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Over the past several months, the health of U.S. energy stocks has largely mirrored the path of political uncertainties surrounding the BP oil spill.
Yes, it will take a decade or more to build and mature this electric vehicle infrastructure, but there is at long last a path to break our dependence on foreign oil.
Put us on the path to the right kind of "peak oil" -- and peak carbon -- the peak that comes, not because we find less and less, but because we want less and less.
It is open only for about five months of the year, from late June to November or early December, and requires icebreakers to cut a path through the Arctic ice for specially strengthened oil and gas carriers.
In the absence of new discoveries or breakthroughs in alternative energy, the continent will need to import more and more oil to meet the demand, an expensive and politically treacherous path.
Time and again, the path forward has been blocked -- not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.
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While Africa is a continent rich in resources, with 12% of the world's oil reserves and 42% of its gold, we cannot follow too narrow a path to development.
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric and U.K. oil company BP, both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
The plan still requires three levels of state and federal permits before the path will be clear for the area's first new drilling since a major oil spill in 1969.
With the oil-rich North African nation still trying to write a constitution and chart its post-Gadhafi path, the alliance has been locked in a power struggle with Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations, " he said, warning of a "long and sometimes difficult" path to sustainable energy sources in a nation dominated by its fossil fuel industries such as oil and coal.
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